Poetry Assessment

What is alliteration?

• Repetition of a word

• Repetition of beginning letter sounds

• A type of rhyme

• Sounds that imitate meaning

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

Which of the following is a simile?

• The apple of my eye

• Boom!

• Clean as a whistle

• She sells seashells by the seashore.

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

What element is an obvious, deliberate exaggeration?

• Hyperbole

• Onomatopoeia

• Alliteration

• Simile

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

Personification is:

• A sound that imitates meaning

• Repetition of beginning letter sounds

• Giving human qualities and/or actions to non-human things

• A comparison of 2 unrelated things that share common characteristics

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

"Boom," "Crack," and "Buzz" are examples of what?

• Personification

• Onomatopoeia

• Alliteration

• Speech

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

Pick the hyperbole below:

• Can you get this question correct?

• Mr. Smith is older than the hills.

• I went skating last Tuesday.

• Marcella was very, very cold.

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

What do similes and metaphors have in common?

• They are examples of form.
• They don't have anything in common.
• They both use "like" or "as".
• They both compare two things.

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RI.6.7

CCSS.RI.7.7

CCSS.RI.8.7

CCSS.RL.7.7

A grouped set of lines in a poem, set apart from others with a space, is called a ________.

• stanza
• refrain
• ballad
• chorus

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.5

The voice that is talking to us in a poem is referred to as what?

• author
• speaker
• poet
• audience

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.6.4

The author's or speaker's attitude toward the subject of the poem

• tone
• mood
• simile
• theme

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5